The announcement includes a canned quote from Eric Sammer, Rocana's chief technical officer, to the effect that “Splunk is the most widely adopted machine data and analytics platform in the market today. We are thrilled to join the Splunk team and help contribute to its vision of helping customers turn data into answers.”

Don't rule out that quote being a genuine sentiment, as there are far more ignominious exits from a business than a quick cash acquisition. Perhaps that inflammatory blog post even helped to put Rocana on Splunk's radar. Stranger things have happened in StartupLand! ®